[wellylug] Read-only file permissions across network

[Jethro Carr]

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:14 +1200, Xav Paice wrote:

> I might be reading you wrong here, but I'm gathering you have the file
> actully located on a samba share from your laptop or a server
> somewhere, and you can open the file fine in Windows but on the Linux
> machine you need to copy it to a local area before you can open and
> save in OpenOffice, but can copy files to and from the server OK.  You
> probably need to mount the samba share (i.e. from bash 'smbmount' )
> and open that way, rather than from Nautilus.  Nautilus isn't quite
> perfect in terms of opening a network location and providing that
> location to apps 


hi Colin,

Xav has the right idea, Nautilus's handling of samba shares can be
pretty rough.

Note that smbmount no longer exists on some systems, you are susposed to
mount with cifs filesystem, eg:
$ mount -t cifs //myserver/myshare /mnt/myshare

If the share requires authentication, you can do
$ mount -t cifs //myserver/myshare /mnt/myshare -o username=colin

The command will prompt for the login password.


If this works, there are ways you can automate the mount, I use a
service called "autofs" which automatically mounts samba shares when I
attempt to access them, and even authenticates for me.


> - unless someone knows a switch somewhere I don't know about?

nautilus --dont-suck-for-a-change?

:-)

regards,
jethro


-- 
Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog
www.amberdms.com
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